by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán · Planeta Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408053842
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«Quinteto de Buenos Aires» is the crime novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, published by Planeta in paperback (523 pages, in Spanish).
An uncle who emigrated to America asks detective Carvalho to find in Buenos Aires a cousin who wanted to disappear after surviving the Argentine military dictatorship. In his search, Carvalho crosses a city of cynical survivors who prefer to forget the past; the novel interweaves that memory with several tangos written by the author himself.
It belongs to the Pepe Carvalho series, as number 20, and was originally published in 1997.
Aimed at readers of crime fiction and followers of the Carvalho series.
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was a prolific Spanish writer from Barcelona: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humorist, critic and political prisoner as well as a gastronome and an FC Barcelona supporter.
